Adeel Akhtar is such a wonderful actor!

Have you watched him in Utopia? So good!

He really is.

I kind of felt like River when he first showed up. I didn't really like him and wanted Stevie back cause I had already grown fond of her from the interactions with her and River. He definitely grew on me though because as you said he was very natural and it was hard not to like him by the end and want to be his buddy.